Ritchard 'Ritchie' Goos Baker Jacobson
b. 03/10/1877 – d. 10/14/1881

DIED: BAKER—In this town on Friday, October 14, 1881, Richard Goos Baker Jacobson, son of Captain. Simon Baker and Gadina (Gardina) Amalie Goos, aged 4 years, 7 months and 4 days.

"For the sympathetic and kindly assistance to me and my family, during the late illness of our beloved boy, we owe a debt of eternal gratitude to our good friends and neighbors, and particularly to the Rev. H. P. Hensch, whose constant devotion and care kept, watch by the bedside of the sick child, from the first to the last hour of our sad bereavement." –Simon Baker and Wife.
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The following articles contain information regarded Capt. Simon Baker Jacobson:

Schooner Lydia, Capt. S. Baker arrived last Wednesday, with a full cargo of assorted merchandise for our merchants. (LCC 02/11/1882)

Capt. Simon Baker came in Wednesday with his snug craft, the Lydia, loaded down with freight. Capt. Baker informs us that since the canal had been cleaned out he makes better trips than last years. (LCC 04/01/1882)

The Lydia, Capt. Simon Baker commanding arrived from Galveston Monday, with a cargo of general merchandise. We think we have said before that the captain of the Lydia is a very popular and worthy gentleman. (LCE 10/07/1882)

Mr. John Clooney has begun the building of a splendid schooner for Capt. Simon Baker. (LCE 11/18/1882)

The schooner Lydia, from Galveston, Capt. Simon Baker, arrived at our dock Thursday. She brought a general cargo of merchandise. (LCE 12/09/1882)

Our esteemed townsman, Capt. Simon Baker, owner of the "Geo. Lock," the model schooner built by our well-known ship builder, John F. Clooney, has just returned from a trip making the best time on record, as follows: From Lake Charles to Indianola, Texas, thence to Morgan City, La. thence back to Indianola, thence to Lake Charles, in the short space of twelve days. (LCC 08/02/1884)

Capt. Simon Baker, the kindly and popular salt, is home again from a lengthened voyage down the Mexican and Central American coast, evidently a pleasant one, as indicated by his cheery greeting of his legions of friends and his elastic and youthful step, which seems never to have known sea legs. (LCC 03/01/1890)

Capt. Simon Baker sailed into port last Monday one of the largest sailing vessels that ever before landed in this city; the three-masted schooner, "Bella Sara," of Tuxpan, Mexico, and also the first Mexican vessel to this port. The Captain informed us that his new vessel will be hauled out at the shipyard of Mr. John F. Clooney, to undergo some needed repairs, and on her return out of this port she will load with 150,000 feet of Calcasieu pine lumber from the saw mill of Mr. H. C. Drew for Mexican ports. (LCC 08/27/1892)

Fruit Vessel Ashore - Rockport, Texas, Feb. 16. – It is reported here that the schooner Willie Ann, which left Tuxpan during the latter part of January with fruit, is ashore on Padre Island. This vessel was in command of Capt. Simon Baker, of this city, and from what we can learn, there is no doubt but what the crew lost their lives in the wreckage. (LCC 02/22/1896)

The Policy Paid. – The officers of Reliance Lodge No. 3278, Knights of Honor, several days ago received from the Grand Lodge a check for $2000 in favor of Mrs. Simon Baker Jacobs(en), of this city, being amount of the insurance policy taken out in that order by the late Capt. Simon Baker Jacobs(on), as he was familiarly called, lost his life at sea about this time last years. (LCC 12-19-1896)